L O C A L H E R O E S

BACH & BRAHMS Thursday 9 August 6pm, Salon

PRESENTED BYMelbourne Recital Centre & Ensemble Gombert

ARTISTSEnsemble Gombert

SopranoCarol Veldhoven Katherine Lieschke Victoria Brown Katharina HochheiserMandie Lee Claerwen Jones

Alto Belinda Wong Juliana Kay Niki Ebacioni Yi Wen Chin

TenorPeter Campbell Tim van Nooten Vaughan McAlley

Michael StephensStuart Tennant

Bass Andrew Murray Nicholas Tolhurst Mike Ormerod Christian Smith

DirectorJohn O’Donnell

PROGRAM JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229

I Komm, Jesu, kommII Aria: Drum schließ ich mich in deine Hände und sage, Welt, guter Nacht!

Ich lasse dich nicht, BWV Anh.159

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225I Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied II Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet III Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten

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JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Op.109

I Unsere Väter hofften auf dich II Wenn ein starker Gewappneter III Wo ist ein so herrlich Volk

Drei Motetten, Op.110I Ich aber bin elendII Ach, arme Welt, du trügest mich III Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein

ABOUT THE ARTISTSEnsemble Gombert is Melbourne’s outstanding chamber choir, noted for its pure intonation and historic approach to choral sound and style. Named after influential composer Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-1560), the Ensemble specialises in a cappella performance of Franco-Flemish music of the High Renaissance. The Ensemble’s concerts have been broadcast regularly on ABC Classic FM and it has recorded several albums. It appears frequently at festivals across Australia and has toured to North America (2009) and three times to Europe (2004, 2006 & 2015). Founded by John O’Donnell in 1990, the Ensemble quickly established a reputation for its exemplary tonality, giving a ‘stunning rendition’ of two works by Czech composer Petr Eben in 1991, in the presence of the composer. In 1992 it was invited to open the Rubens and the Italian Renaissance exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and later that year won first prize at the inaugural Australian National Open Choral Championships in Wagga Wagga, NSW. In 2004 it returned to the NGV to sing Monteverdi's Vespers, presented by the Italian Institute of Culture in conjunction with the Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and his World exhibition. Other performances of note include the first Australian performances of of Edmund Rubbra's Mass in Honour of St Teresa of Avila and Arvo Pärt's Canon of Repentance, as well as premieres of works by Australian composers Calvin Bowman, Andrew Robbie, Vaughan McAlley and Peter Campbell.

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Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the people of the Kulin Nation on whose land this concert is being presented.